Fast-Tracking After Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery Lobectomy, Segmentectomy, and Pneumonectomy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1663-1668

  McKenna Jr , Robert J ^a   Mahtabifard, Ali ^a   Pickens, Allan ^b   Kusuanco, Donato ^a   Fuller, Clark Beeman ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEIMLICH MANEUVER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBE;

AGED; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PNEUMONECTOMY; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 35348881557     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.05.058     Document Type: Article

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